Overview Innovation Grant Focus group conducted Site visits Design - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Innovation Grant Focus group conducted Site

visits

• Design Thinking Professional Development

Workshop Design Lab with W&M faculty, WJCC staff and Warhill faculty

• Working group develops and refines Pathways

Project

• Development of Pathways Project professional

development workshops for teachers

Overview

• Meeting with Peninsula Workforce

Development Council

• Site visits to JCC business and industries by

Pathways Project task force

• Pathways Professional development

workshops (curriculum writing, project based learning, performance based assessments)

• RFP for online content provider

Overview

• High Tech High – project-based learning;

certification of courses by California University System

• Innovations HS – personalized on-line learning;

blending with CTE and Community College

• fferings; unconventional staffing to maximize

resources

• Warrior Tech HS – blending of traditional

courses in a project-based format; standard rubric for all classes tied back to core competencies of the program

Site Visits

• The Apprentice School – rigor needed by

students to pursue post-secondary options besides four-year college; “hands-on” learning

• Albemarle HS (Team 19) – April 29th
• Alamo Academies – May 11th

Site Visits

• Teacher, student and parent frustrations with

current high school model

• Partnership with College of William & Mary
• SOL Innovation Committee recommendations

with regard to Early/Advanced HS

Lessons Learned: Key Conditions

• Current and proposed graduation

requirements

• Lack of available Career Cluster related

course work

• Requirement for subject certified teacher

with online courses

• Perception that change means we’re doing

something wrong

Lessons Learned: Barriers

• Include career cluster research

Lessons Learned: Do Differently